Thank You, Alisha Koulen, Four Years of Building Dreams at STEMGuyana
by Karen Abrams STEMGuyana Director Some people arrive quietly, do their work with excellence, and then leave behind footprints so…
A Visit to the International Building Expo; Optimism, Opportunity and Questions About Guyana’s Future
I spent some time at the International Building Expo 2026 this weekend, and I left both encouraged and thoughtful about…
Part 2: The Hidden Cost of Poverty in Guyana
By Dr. Karen Abrams, MBA, AA In my previous column, I discussed the poverty premium, the reality that people with…
Part 1: Being Poor Costs More in Guyana
By Dr. Karen Abrams, MBA, AA Here is one of the cruellest facts in all of economics, and once you…
The Power Problem
Dr. Karen Abrams writes a weekly column on technology, education, and economics. She is the founder of STEMGuyana. Listen closely…
The Education We Have Versus the Education We Need
Every reasonable conversation about Guyana’s future eventually comes back to education, and most of those conversations end up in the…
The Missing Architecture — Why Guyana Has No Venture Capital and No National Research Fund
In the United States, the National Science Foundation deploys roughly nine billion dollars a year to fund research the private…
Guyana’s Two-Sided Trade Story — Record Exports, Record Imports, Mystery Middle
The 2026 Budget contains a number that should be on the front page of every business publication in Guyana, but…
The Distribution Gap — Why Guyanese Pay More for Food They Grow
There is a number every Guyanese household has been quietly absorbing for the past five years that the country’s political…
Jets over a new oil frontier–what pending military moves mean for investors and for Guyana
Washington’s recent movement of fighter jets into the southern Caribbean, including deployments reported in proximity to Guyana, has sharpened global…